WILLIAM J. DAVIS, INC. v. SLADE

No. 5329.

271 A.2d 412 (1970)

WILLIAM J. DAVIS, INC., a corporation and Ralph D. Cohn, Appellants, v. Carrie SLADE, Individually and as next friend of Leslie Slade, a minor child, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 3, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman Miller, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

C. Christopher Brown, Washington, D. C., with whom Woodley B. Osborne, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, FICKLING and GALLAGHER, Associate Judges.


FICKLING, Associate Judge:

Appellants appeal from a summary judgment awarding appellee, a former tenant, $690 which represented rent paid under a lease which had been declared void in a prior landlord and tenant action.

The undisputed facts are that appellants, knowing that substantial housing violations existed, rented certain premises to appellee. For 6 months appellee paid rent totaling $690 and then defaulted. The appellants then brought an action to recover...

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